Internationalised Master Degree Education in Nanoelectronics in Asian Universities

This project aimed at transferring knowledge between EU higher education institutions and institutions in China, Malaysia, India and Israel, and between the partner countries (PCs) institutions to adapt, innovate and modernise existing curricula in Nanoelectronics in the four PCs; to develop new certified courses, to test innovated curricula and to disseminate the results. With this, it fits into the development strategies of the countries in both curriculum modernisation and high-tech production stimulation.It addresses the regional priorities of the Asian countries and the national priority of Israel for development of learning and teaching tools, applying the approach with learning outcomes and ICT-based practices, but also the national priorities of all involved PCs in development of nanotechnologies.Three EU and eight PC universities shared infrastructure, technological and human resources to develop certified e-learning modules for 27 courses, developed for specific learning outcomes and used in the partners BSc and MSs programmes in nanoelectronics.The project impact is on:- Local level: Partner countries HEIs have modernised curricula and innovated laboratories with new equipment; young specialists are better prepared for the labour market and opportunity for higher employability; the universities were prepared with on-line educational materials and skills to develop on-line learning when the COVID crisis arrized in Asia and in the world; - National level: improvement of HE in each Partner country following the national priorities and strategic development; the successful implementation of modernised curricula in nanoelectronics contributes to the curricular reform in other areas of HE in the countries. - Asian-EU level: internationalisation of the HE; collaborative development and delivery of new courses by teachers from countries with very different culture and religion, common experiences of students of different countries; learning improvement, thanks to the modernisation of laboratories and curricula.The results from the implementation of the innovated curricula with 27 courses developed, accredited and integrated in the daily educational activities of the PCs institutions. are as follows:-282 students involved in the pilot test; -537 students involved in the field trial;-830 students continued learning on the new courses during the last project year during the project eligibility period extension;-2328 students from 21 countries involved in the webinars and used the recorded materials from the webinars.The new experiences of teachers could be summarised as follows:-Starting recording and sharing courses online on small scale at the first period of the project and later making larger use as more and more courses produced, partner universities were technically and pedagogically better prepared to meet the COVID 19 challenges in terms of education in times of lock down -The recording instances of the courses, which developed during the project period helped the students during the COVID 19 lockdown as supporting online zoom sessions. -The participation of senior lecturers on recording their courses encouraged more professors to take part in the recordings also the option of exposing their courses to students at universities with which they would like to establish better academic connections at national and regional level. -Opening courses produced in the framework of the project to students from member universities helped the students to meet virtually students from different countries, cultures and religious. This is very much in line with PC universities strategy on institutional and national level in terms of internationalization.